Category John Calvin

The ‘Double Salvation’ of the French Calvin: Participation with Christ as the Locus Classicus of Calvinian Soteriology

July 1, 2019 · by · in Evangelical Calvinism, Evangelical Calvinism Book, John Calvin, Salvation

John Calvin is an important figure for Protestant theology. If we can move past all the polemics that are associated (usually, wrongly) with his name, and actually engage with his theological offering; what the reader will find is a rich storehouse of theological reflection that is highly Christ concentrated. That’s what I intend to do […]

Against Clericalism In High Churches and Low-Free Churches Alike: With Reference to Calvin’s Critique and A Local Church as Case Study

June 17, 2019 · by · in Ecclesial, Ecclesiology, John Calvin

Clericalism, it’s a problem. We might think this problem is reserved for high church governments like we find, in particular, in Roman Catholicism; its excesses were most pronounced during the mediaeval ecclesiopolitical period. But this problem isn’t limited to high churches; it is a severe problem in many low-church contexts as well. When I refer […]

God’s Transcendence as the Point of Communion and Compassion: Calvin’s Theology Per Canlis

May 7, 2019 · by · in John Calvin, Julie Canlis · 2 Comments

I don’t have a lot of time to write anything, but I wanted to share this really good word from Julie Canlis (by the way, she is a contributor to our first volume Evangelical Calvinism book). Here she is writing on Calvin’s thinking on Divine transcendence. You will notice that she is taking aim at […]

The Patristic Rather than the Protestant, Calvin: Calvin’s Doctrine of Theosis and Ontological Salvation in Con-versation With Irenaeus

April 16, 2019 · by · in Irenaeus, John Calvin, Salvation · 1 Comment

It might be said that John Calvin was something of a theologian born out of time. When you read him, particularly the French version of his Institutes of the Christian Religion, what you will find is someone who sounds more like a Patristic theologian more than one who worked in and post late medieval theology. […]

The Word of God as the CentralDogma for Protestant Theology

January 31, 2019 · by · in Doctrine of Scripture, John Calvin, Theology Of Retrieval

For me, a theology of the Word is definitive for what it means to be a Protestant Christian; as such, I think our theologies ought to be conditioned by their reposition upon the Word of God. There seems to be some slide in this area among Protestant retrievers; i.e. the guys and gals who are […]

Knowledge of God and His Holiness Brings Knowledge of Self: Learning How to Live a Counter-Cultural Life from the Culture of Heaven

January 29, 2019 · by · in American Evangelicalism, Cultural Christianity, Doctrine Of God, Doctrine Of Sin, Holiness, John Calvin

I have been thinking lately about how easily we, as Christians, are seduced into the ways of the ‘world’; even when we are vigilantly attempting to live sanctified lives unto God. It is seemingly impossible to not be enculturated, at some level, to the point that our guard is taken down and the world system […]

The Calvinian Turn to Jesus Christ Versus the Catholic Turn to the Vicar: A Rationale for the Evangelical Calvinist Via

November 28, 2018 · by · in Barth, Evangelical Calvinism, John Calvin, Julie Canlis, Prolegomena, T. F. Torrance, Theology Of Retrieval

John Calvin provided for a Protestantly Reformed turn towards a genuinely Christocentric theology of the Word, that prior (except in lineaments found in some Patristics and then in Martin Luther) was hard to find; particularly in the mediaeval context within which Calvin found himself, even if that was of the late variety. In the modern […]

Election Was Barth’s Hook: Contra the Five Point Calvinists and the Absolutum Decretum

November 1, 2018 · by · in Barth, Critiquing Classic Calvinism, Evangelical Calvinism, Evangelical Calvinism Book, John Calvin, T. F. Torrance · 3 Comments

What initially attracted me to Karl Barth and Thomas Torrance? It really was a matter of theological utility, and need. I lived in a nut, and I needed it cracked; they cracked it for me with integrity and theological acumen. That was the hook for me. What am I referring to; what’s the nut? Election/Reprobation/Predestination. […]

Gannon Murphy On: To truly know God is to love him. Religion and Piety As a Frame for Knowing God

October 17, 2018 · by · in Evangelical Calvinism, Evangelical Calvinism Book, John Calvin · 1 Comment

By now you know that our second Evangelical Calvinism book was just released, the full title being: Evangelical Calvinism: Volume 2: Dogmatics&Devotion. But as you also know Myk and I had a volume 1 Evangelical Calvinism book published under the title: Evangelical Calvinism: Essays Resourcing the Continuing Reformation of the Church (which this subtitle is also […]

How John Calvin Found Comfort in Regard to His Physical Frailty and Sicknesses: And Application of that to My Cancer Diagnosis and Human Suffering in General

July 13, 2018 · by · in Evangelical Calvinism Book, John Calvin · 2 Comments

Sickness, disease, suffering, death, and evil, among other such trifles, are all things that Christians have a capacity to face, before and because of God, with an utter sense of hope and sober trust. Often evil, and all of its attendant realities (including human suffering!), is used as a scalpel to cut God to pieces; […]

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